Chapter 5: Take me back to the start.

It's been four days since I got home. I woke up still feeling a little bit tired and I will blame jet lag for it. But the truth is that I'm super lazy lately.

Anyways, I'm still staying with Sam because looking for a new apartment is boring and energy consuming and I don't want to waste time on something boring when I could do fun things like shopping, going to a spa or playing games.

I slowly walked to the kitchen and my blonde friend was making breakfast.

"Morning…." I said as I sat on the first stool at the counter.

"Hi! Before I forgot I need to talk to you." He said while he was wiping his hands on a rag he had hanging on his shoulder, after he had put the last ingredient of his nutritional milkshake.

I took a breath and I got up from the stool. 'Is too fucking early in the morning' I thought while I was pouring a cup of coffee. I just came back home and I'm really happy. I will try my best and not snap to the next words Sam is going to say.

It's the mantra I'm repeating in my head right now because every time Samuel Evans says 'I need to talk to you', he's up to something, probably something senseless.

"What's going on?" I sat on my previous spot with the cup between my hands.

"I want to break up with Brittany."

"What?" I almost choked on my coffee.

I know I was gone for almost two years, however I came here on vacation and whenever I could and I thought everything was ok. Sam and Brittany always seemed good together.

"You never said anything. What happened?" I was curious.

"I don't know." He shrugged.

"What do you mean you don't know? You finally found a girlfriend that I approve and now you want to dump her?"

Sam's exes were gross. It was like he was cursed, or blind or deaf I don't why, but he always picked the worst, although with Brittany I thought he hit the jackpot.

Well, it's not like I had too much time to get to know her the night we met but after that we talked from time to time. And when she became Sam's girlfriend, she eventually turned out my friend too.

"This is not about your approval!" He huffed.

"Okay, slow down Trouty Mouth. I mean it's your life do whatever you want. I don't care. Break up with her, be my guest."

My friendship with Sam doesn't rely on share our feelings so there's something more.

"Spit it out." I added.

"I need a favor…" He sat and the stool in front of mine. "I need that you make Brittany to break up with me."

I thought he was joking and I laughed, while I was drinking coffe. He was looking straight into my eyes and I realized he was dead serious and my laugh died.

"What?" I choked on my coffee for the second time this morning because I was stunned. "¿Tú eres tonto o qué te pasa? No fucking way! I won't do that!" I protested.

"Listen to me…."

"Santana Lopez doesn't do the dirty work for anyone. If you want to break up with her you will have to man up and do it yourself." I tried to make my point of view very clear.

"It's no that. You don't understand. A break up would make things weird."

He's right I don't understand anything is too early in the morning and Sam continues speaking.

"Do you remember Artie?"

"No." I shake my head.

"Tina's ex boyfriend." He clarified.

"Ooh… Do you mean Wheels. Yes, I remember him." I said and Sam frowned. "What? Don't look me like that he knew I called him that. No biggie."

"After he and Tina broke up we never saw him again."

"I didn't know he was a close friend of yours. So cute." I mocked him because I still don't understand anything.

"He wasn't. And I don't want that happening again. Now our group of friends is bigger and you came back and everyone is happy."

"Sam, this is bullish…." Although he's right our group of friends is bigger now, that doesn't mean anything.

"You owe me." He cut me off. "Remember that time you told one of my girlfriends I had a micropenis to balance my mouth."

I laughed, that was a really good one. I was so inspired that day.

"I said huge mouth, just to clarify and back there you said it didn't matter."

"Because it didn't, that's what friends do. They forgive and help each other when they screw up things."

"Actually, you should have thanked me because you don't want to be with someone who ran at the first problem. It was good for you." I said honestly.

"You didn't do it to help me, you did it because you didn't like her."

"It doesn't matter that was a win-win for me, still was good for you." I defended myself. "And that is what brings us to the starting point. I like Brittany, she's my friend too."

"Think about it if we broke up she probably will stop being friends with you 'cause you know, we are best friends. And I'm not asking you to marry her." He assured me. "You only need to put the seed in her mind. She needs to realize I'm not the guy for her. Like in that movie, 'Inception'."

"You have some nerve Sammy boy and I thought I was the mastermind of manipulating people…" I sip my coffee but it is cold. Yucks.

"Sorry, you don't own me anything. I'm just asking for help. You're the only person who can help me. You're smart and hot, you're perfect."

"Now you're just sucking up to me." I smiled, he knows how to stroke my ego.

"Yes." He cracked a smile. "Trust me, this way everything is easier. Brittany breaks up with me. I don't care and nobody needs to take sides or anything, everyone can still be friends. It's perfect. Like you said a win-win" Sam's phone started to ring. "I'd be right back." He left the kitchen.

For a second I thought that maybe the effort is worth it, if that make Brittany stay in my life. And of course, if our group is going to be okay.